| Title: | The NOMADS Republic: A Quest for Ambient Service-Oriented Computing |
| Date: | November 17, 2005 (Thursday)
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| Time: | 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
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| Venue: | TYW LT, 5/F, Ho Sin Hang Engineering Building,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T. |
| Speaker: | Professor Miroslaw Malek
Institut für Informatik Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin |
The NOMADS Republic is the largest nation on earth. It boasts several billions of citizens already, and depending on how one counts, its population may grow from 20 billion to about a trillion citizens at the end of this decade. The NOMADS Republic has no borders and its growth cannot be stopped. Anyone or anything who/that has an ID, be it a passport or a telephone number, an IP address or a product number, when connected, may become a citizen of the NOMADS Republic such as the people, the infrastructure and embedded systems (sensors and actuators including electromechanical systems such as robots). The goal of NOMADS (Networks of Mobile Adaptive Dependable Systems) infrastructure is to provide low cost, dependable and adaptive connectivity to support mobility, billing and other basic functionality and services desired by clients and service providers. The NOMADS architecture and services could potentially deliver an unprecedented level of highly intelligent and semantic collaboration. The idea is to hide the complexity of underlying infrastructure from the users, showing only the services they can invoke. Additionally, a proposed service composition method has ability to generate new services which were not originally programmed. The NOMADS infrastructure is ubiquitous but rarely pervasive, it is autonomic and proactive and supports humans without technological aggression, trying to hide or embed technical aspects. The ease-of-use is also one of the key goals. The presentation includes a concept of the NOMADS Republic, its societal model, a description of the architecture of NOMADS infrastructure and state-of-the-art developments (e.g., "Magic Map").
BIOGRAPHY:
Miroslaw Malek received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1970 and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1975, both from the Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland.
He is professor and holder of the Chair in Computer Architecture and Communication at Humboldt University in Berlin since 1994. In 1977, he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Systems Design at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, then Assistant, Associate and Full Professor at the University of Texas at Austin where he was also a holder of the Bettie Margaret Smith and the Southwestern Bell Professor in Engineering, Malek's research interests focus on dependability, composability and mobility mainly in distributed systems but also in parallel architectures, real-time systems, and interconnection networks. He has participated in two pioneering parallel computer projects, contributed to the theory and practice of parallel network design, developed the comparison-based method for system diagnosis, codeveloped comprehensive WSI and networks testing techniques, proposed the consensus-based framework for responsive (fault-tolerant, real-time) computer systems design and failure prediction methods and has made numerous other contributions, reflected in over 150 publications and a book with G. J. Lipovski entitled Parallel Computing: Theory and Comparisons.
He has organized, chaired and been a program committee member of numerous IEEE and ACM international conferences and workshops. Among others, he was Program and General Chairman of the Real-Time Systems Symposium in 1984 and 1985, respectively and in 1994 General Chairman of the 24th Fault-Tolerant Computing Symposium, Program Co-chairman of the 22nd Symposium on Reliable Distributed Computing in 2003, Program Chairman and General Chairman of the International Service Availability Symposium in 2004 and 2005, respectively. He served on the editorial boards of various journals, among them the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing as well as Real-Time Systems journal.
Malek was a Visiting Scientist at Bell Labs in Murray Hill and at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY. He held the IBM Chair at Keio University in Japan in 1992. He was also a Visiting Professor at Stanford University (1997/1998), New York University (2001) and the Italian National Research Center and Pisa University (2002).
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